The dealmaker's ten commandments
Subtitle: ten essential tools for business forged in the trenches of Hollywood
By: Jeff B. Cohen, Esq
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781627227612
Subjects: Negotiation in business
Description: The Dealmaker's Ten Commandments contains a practical, no-nonsense methodology for negotiating deals, managing your time and handling crisis all at the highest level. Peppered with entertainment industry war stories, this book has been forged in the white hot crucible of brutal transactional combat. Although developed in Hollywood, the real world tactics, strategies and guiding principles are vital for any business environment. With sufficient practice, incorporating The Dealmaker's Ten Commandments into your life becomes second nature. Opportunities that once were hidden become visible. Traps that would have snared you are avoided. Enemy vulnerabilities which would have gone undetected reveal themselves. The book is a tool kit, enabling you to overcome resistance, obtain your goals as a professional and achieve the success that is living your life on your terms. -- ABA website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Warning --; title: The dealmaker's methodology --; title: Chunk meets Machiavelli --; title: Dealmaker's commandment I : It is better to be feared than loved --; title: Dealmaker's commandment II : Power leads, reason follows --; title: Dealmaker's commandment III : Everyone is on the same side ... their own --; title: Dealmaker's commandment IV : Things are precisely as they seem --; title: Dealmaker's commandment V : No pig wrestling --; title: Dealmaker's commandment VI : Take yes for a yes, maybe for a yes, and no for maybe --; title: Dealmaker's commandment VII : Do it, delete it, delegate it --; title: Dealmaker's commandment VIII : Don't panic, stop the bleeding, don't compound the error --; title: Dealmaker's commandment IX : Be a dealmaker, not a deal breaker --; title: Dealmaker's commandment X : Heed Nietzsche's warning ---- Curtain call.